Comments on: British company completes 1st rocket test in the UK in 50 years https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/british-company-completes-1st-rocket-test-in-the-uk-in-50-years/ Fri, 22 May 2020 11:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/british-company-completes-1st-rocket-test-in-the-uk-in-50-years/#comment-1081197 Fri, 22 May 2020 11:56:52 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65877#comment-1081197 For the prior Rocket folks out there: Didn’t the photo showing the several trailers (holding control HW and possibly personnel) look awfully close to a static test fire experiment?

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/british-company-completes-1st-rocket-test-in-the-uk-in-50-years/#comment-1081180 Fri, 22 May 2020 04:51:30 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65877#comment-1081180 can’t forget the British nuclear weapon programme—

“Equinox: A Very British Bomb”
BBC-4
https://youtu.be/Qk_zpjK3cTo
49:13

and…

“Our Reactor Is On Fire”
(1999 version)
1957 Windscale ‘incident’
https://youtu.be/vcsyMvQtlKs
47:48

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/british-company-completes-1st-rocket-test-in-the-uk-in-50-years/#comment-1081179 Fri, 22 May 2020 04:41:35 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65877#comment-1081179 “The British Space Race”
BBC 2004,
(part 1)
https://youtu.be/yW5X8dhxA_8
(19:41)

]]> By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/british-company-completes-1st-rocket-test-in-the-uk-in-50-years/#comment-1081178 Fri, 22 May 2020 04:29:08 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65877#comment-1081178 Tom Biggar,

I missed the static fire test of their rocket, which is what Robert referenced, not launch. However, I liked the “button” at the end of the video.

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/british-company-completes-1st-rocket-test-in-the-uk-in-50-years/#comment-1081169 Fri, 22 May 2020 03:20:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65877#comment-1081169 The Black Arrow – from the era of the coloured programs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Codes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHBGAyIU8Hw

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/british-company-completes-1st-rocket-test-in-the-uk-in-50-years/#comment-1081151 Thu, 21 May 2020 17:22:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65877#comment-1081151 In reply to Tom Biggar.

It also wasn’t really a serious rocket, but a stunt.

]]> By: Tom Biggar https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/british-company-completes-1st-rocket-test-in-the-uk-in-50-years/#comment-1081150 Thu, 21 May 2020 17:04:36 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65877#comment-1081150 Unfortunately, you are wrong. Just over a decade ago the BBC launched a rocket.

https://youtu.be/pJdrlWR-yFM

Well, OK it wasn’t a static test.

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